Tennis Players??

[JonHecht]

I am pretty cheap when it comes to tennis clothes. Just a regular pair of shorts and a t-shirt. More important, however, is my Wilson ncode racket.

Oh, I also have a pair of tennis shoes that were my father's.

 

[nakokoro]

Barricades always. everything else doesn't matter so much.

 

[jaac]

How often do you guys break strings? I'm on my 4th set in as many weeks, thankfully im good friends with my coach/shop owner and get them cheap but its fairly annoying, tried 4 different types aswell.

 

[JonHecht]

Originally Posted by jaac

How often do you guys break strings? I'm on my 4th set in as many weeks, thankfully im good friends with my coach/shop owner and get them cheap but its fairly annoying, tried 4 different types aswell.

Very rarely...

 

[M.D.]

I used to play a lot and broke my strings +/- every 3 sets. I played with a really strange extreme grip causing my ball to have a massive amount of spin; downside was that i didn't hit it very hard and as mentionned before i broke my strings quite often. I bought a big roll of strings, a friend had a stringing machine (?) and i put them on myself so in the end it wasn't all that expensive.

 

[unrated]

For me in depends who I play with. I've broken many strings playing with an ex NAIA player. My regular hitting partner, I break less because he doesn't hit with extreme top.

 

[hws]

I use most thin natural gut, so break sometimes. But is so nice, I think I never change!

 

[rjmaiorano]

Originally Posted by jaac

How often do you guys break strings? I'm on my 4th set in as many weeks, thankfully im good friends with my coach/shop owner and get them cheap but its fairly annoying, tried 4 different types aswell.

I play with A LOT of topspin and break every so often, but not enough to be a hassle. I play a thick gauge of (16) Luxilon Big Banger Power and am very happy.

 

[unrated]

Originally Posted by rjmaiorano

I play with A LOT of topspin and break every so often, but not enough to be a hassle. I play a thick gauge of (16) Luxilon Big Banger Power and am very happy.
I would love to buy a reel of BB ALU power but the price of the reel isn't justified for me. I would rather shell out 70 dollars on a reel of Topspin Cyberflash than 250 for BB ALU. However, I will say BB ALU power is the best string I have ever used.

 

[ThisFlyGuy]

usually wear all nike dri fit stuff....

i use topspin plus....

 

[jkidd41011]

No problem with breaking strings...benefits of owning a stringer

 

[hws]

Originally Posted by jkidd41011

No problem with breaking strings...benefits of owning a stringer
Yes this is nice to have, machine with electric constant pull type of tensioning system.

 

[CunningSmeagol]

Sampras and Federer are okay, but Roddick is beautiful.

 

[jkidd41011]

Originally Posted by hws

Yes this is nice to have, machine with electric constant pull type of tensioning system.
I have an old Prince P-200, uses the compressor instead of electric. Still works great.

 

[hws]

Originally Posted by jkidd41011

I have an old Prince P-200, uses the compressor instead of electric. Still works great.
This is interesting, I never know before of this type of system. How does this operate?